Archimede Busacca,
Italian-born Brazilian
ophthalmologist
(Basico,
Messina 27 January 1893 – São Paulo 25
March
1971)
Authored
155
papers and 4 books
Recognized as one of
the world’s leading ocular pathologists
Became world-famous
for his contributions to biomicroscopy of the living eye
Systematized the
study of fundus biomicroscopy
and its illuminating modes
With
H. Goldmann & S. Schiff-Werthemer. Biomicroscopie du corps vitré
et du fond de l’oeil (1957)
Performed magistral
works on trachoma and the pannus
First to describe
the presence of microbes on trachoma and developed a method for
obtaining biopsies of trachomatous cornea in Rev. Biol. Hyg. 86
(1934)
On a form of
choriorinite with detachment of the retina. Arch. Ophthalmol. Rev.
Gen. Ophthalmol. 9 (5):549-83, 1949
First to demonstrate
the independence of basal membrane from Bowman’s membrane in Bull.
Soc. Franç. Ophtalm. 62:133, 1949
First to describe
the ascending phenomenon of layers in uveitis
Un
nouveau phénoméne observé dans le corps vitré antérieur au cours
des uvéites. Ophthalmologica 126:355-60, 1953
Demonstrated
anatomopathologically the vascular keratitis
La
keratite trachomateuse avasculaire. Klin. Mbl. Augenhk. 94:202-35,
1935
First
to perform light microscopy on an eye with pseudoexfoliation of the
anterior lens capsule
Other
relevant works
Algumas
observações originaes sobre o modo de se comportar da córnea
transparente e do humor aquoso nos processos de iridocyclite. Estudos
com a lâmpada de fenda de Gullstrand (1922)
DESCRIBED
The
pathology of Herbert pits
On
the structure of Herbert’s pits. Brit. J. Ophthalmol. 19;26-31,
1935
Tonofibrils
in lens epithelium (1927)
Three
groups of lymphatic channels at the limbus
Chlamydia
trachomatis
Un
germe aux caracteres de rickettsies (Rickettsia trachomae)
dans le tissue trachomateux. Arch. Ophthalm. 52:567-72, 1935
METHODS
Un
dispositif simple et pratique pour la goniotomie. Ophthalmologica
158;292-5, 1969
Method
for selective staining of Rickettsia. Their etiological value
(1953)
How
to transport material for graft for long distances. Ann. D’ocul.
183(9):791-3, 1950
A
simple method of treating dacryocystitis in the newborn. Arch.
Ophthalm. 24:1256, 1940
A
method for the correction of entropion in trachomatous patients: with
particular attention to the esthetic results. Arch. Ophthalm. 16 (5),
1936
Um
methodo rápido e simples para coloração dos corpúsculos
rickettsioides do trachoma pelo Victoriablau (1935)
NAMED
Trachomatous
pustulae
Goniosynechia
(1945)
Lunula
for conjunctive that compose the limbic area
EPONYMY
Busacca
pseudo-exfoliation deposits (1928)
Goldmann-Busacca
polar lens
Busacca
marginal line of fovea (1948)
Busacca
trabecular conjunctival layer
Busacca
nodule or floccule (nodule that appears on the iris in the anterior
mesodermal layers) 1971
Pannus
sclerosé de Busacca (=pannus involutif sclerosé)